Breaking the Meta: Revisiting an Old Friend with Faust (advi

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Sidkah 284

So Exile has been an all time fave runner of mine since I Started playing, and on my ride home from my friends house, i was thinking about how i could possibly make this deck work. Here is a rough sketch of the deck.

So as you can see, the basic premise of this deck is fausting out the parasites or extra Opuses. I feel that Faust is really good in Exile cause it lets you pitch stuff that can be installed with clone chip or Test Run back, giving you more Faust food. Data suckers help you kill ICE, allowing easier runs and stuff.

I really wanna make this deck work, so any sort of suggestions would be sweet! Danke!

7 comments
30 Aug 2015 Coconutty

Why the Dyson Mem Chip? and what can you scavenge?

30 Aug 2015 Sidkah

@Coconutty The Dysan is there for a link and another MU. the Scavenge is there to get Magnum out with Test Run if need be, or to scavenge a parasite over onto an ICE that can be trashed easier (like a Pop-up or Quandary)

30 Aug 2015 Coconutty

I think running Grimoire should deal with mem issues just fine, and since most of your programs don't need to be on the board much, you can probably get away with not running Personal Workshop. The presence of Net-Ready Eyes is a bit odd, but I wouldn't know as I haven't played with it much

30 Aug 2015 Coconutty

With the extra space you could try running Paricias as extra scavenge fodder. Also, fire is a thing you should be afraid of especially when you might be ending turns below max hand size

30 Aug 2015 Sidkah

@Coconutty Net Ready is there to help keep Faust as low as possible. The meat Damage is ok b/c if its a program it can be Cloned back. otherwise, LEVY will bring it back.

30 Aug 2015 Coconutty

The Scorched Earth threat still exists, however, and sometimes having more money is not an end all response to it. My only problem with NRE here is that it doesn't seem much more effective than The Personal Touch, which while costing credits will be more economical than costing you cards you could feed to Faust

30 Aug 2015 MJZearen

Speaking of cost, you don't have money here at all. Having Magnum Opus doesn't excuse you from including cards like Sure Gamble. And no, Personal Workshop doesn't let you work more cheaply. If anything, you need more money going into a run to get things off PW when you need it. I honestly don't think PW works well in this deck at all, but that's up to you. I would drop the Dyson Mem Chip because that one more link isn't doing much for you. 2 Levy AR Lab Access might be over doing it, but that you'll find out from play-testing. I agree that The Personal Touch would be better for you than Net-Ready Eyes, mostly because its always going toward the same thing (Faust) anyway and you don't take that meat damage. I would also do 3 Quality Time and 2 Diesel. Maybe find a way to have a bigger handsize so you can build up for runs. TL;DR: Get more money, drop extra cards like the Dyson Chip and 1 Levy, sub in the Personal Touch for Net-ready eyes, and maybe get more hand size.